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Hey, so I'm trying out my first megaproject of making a kingdom with a castle, mote, walls, home quarter, industry quarter, the works (using humans of course).  So I got my first z-level of wall built that made my fort into a 50by130 plot with a well in the dead center, guard towers at each corner, a 3 tile wide space for my drawbridge in the center of the northern wall, and a 10by20 underground greenhouse being "floored over" as we speak.  I'm in warm weather with a brook, lots of trees, and chalk.

I was thinking of making lots of little square houses for my humans in its own quarter, and having a big castle in the south-center area.  My walls will be two z-levels high (as far as my mote is) with 3-4 z-level high guard towers at each corner.  I want to know any tips for using my space efficiently, I was thinking of using some kind of grid system but I wanted to ask you guys for tips.

hey, I'm trying to grow some above ground plants and I'm having trouble...a lot of the land has some grass/shrub/sapling on it which interferes with my plans.  Is there a way to  clear out the area or something? Do you know of any convenient methods?

I am trying to make a tower and I don't know how to construct floors on the 2nd level, since its "open space" I cant seem the place the floors anywhere, how do I build new floors on areas that are "open space"?

Edit: When I try to place it adjacent to a "floor" (top of a wall) it says "No access to building material non-economic item"

So seeing at there is only 1 noble for each job, and seeing as i've been playing a lot of Medieval 2: Total War, i've got a idea...

You would make a generic noble class (like anyone who currently isn't a noble is a mid-lower class).  What the generic class would do is they would want slightly better rooms, wont do usual labor tasks like mining or fishing, and would want to buy their own weapons/armor/horse(in human fort) with their own money using DF's economy system. Meaning they can be drafted. They would be slightly more powerful then regular mid-low class peasants that get drafted, and would also be the only choice of soldiers when making your king's bodyguard corps.  And maybe there could be some multi-person jobs that are only available to the generic nobles.  So what do you guys think?

So i've decided to try out making a large castle on "Human Fort" and i'm currently in the load-up screen, got a nice spot with a brook, plenty of trees, and some mountains for leveling stone, and the whole plot has dolomite (gonna get some steel) so i'm in the load-out screen, right? and i'm thinking of selling an axe or something for extra points, but there aint any axes all I see are "Iron Halberds 2" and so before I set off, does the halberds act the same as the axe? What other weapons should I know about? ect.


TL/DR: Do "Human Fort" Halberds cut wood like "Dwarf Fortress" axes?

My dwarfs are partying constantly, is it because I recently bought some alcohol after they haven't had any in a while?  How do I get them to stop?

Hey I started off on a mountain (which is missing lava, though the search said it would have some) and I need to find some fuel like coal and lignite, but I cant seem to find any anywhere! what z-level should I be digging at?

Also, 2 more random things;

1. Can you make a bed out of something besides wood?

2. Whats it like playing human fortress?

So it was my first year on my 2nd fortress (quite the 1st on the 1st year because I screwed myself over and ended up drowning 1/2 of my dwarfs, lol) and the 1st year caravan came, and everything was normal aside from moving the trade depot around a few times. when they left though, one of them forgot like, all their stuff and I have some crates of silk, some metal armor and other junk lying around right in front of the entrance to my fortress, and I tried organizing these, though, I realized that I seem to not be able to move the stuff aside from the caged animals, so, help!

Also, what was the most silliest thing you had happen to you/did in DF?